By Madhava Setty, M.D., Children's Health Defense - (The media) failed, and they failed monumentally. And to date, they have given us little reason to doubt that they will fail again... The pandemic has taught us many lessons, but the biggest one is that we now know what highly influential media publications like The Atlantic really are. They are our authority’s strong arm when it comes to exacting its power and its diplomatic envoy when it comes to asking for forgiveness... No, we aren’t gloating. But we are keeping score.